Relocating to Oman - Advise on Logistics (Schools,Housing, Visa etc)

Hi Khurram_1,

If you would go through the wide array of topics pertaining to the topic of 'moving to Oman', which have already been discussed here in the forum, you would gather a wealth of valuable information, even prior to your arrival.

Employment Visa is issued to a company only if the company has the required 'labour clearance' in place. To get the labour clearance, the company must comply and meet with a spectrum of requirements. Only if the company successfully meets with the requirements would they be given a labour clearance, with which a new employment visa can be applied to be able to appoint an expatriate. This is the procedure.

If a company has met with all the requirements, then it is a matter of a mere working week at the most to have the employment visa issued. If any of the requirements are not met, then no one can say how long the delay would be.

In Oman, all official dealing would have to be routed  through the employer / company / sponsor only. No expatriate would even be entertained directly in any of the government establishments.

For kitchen usage, only gas cylinders are used. All over the Sultanate. Without exceptions. Hot plates / electric stoves are used more as a contingency option. And that too very sparsely.